HELTON,
CHARLES HENRY, Montclair, New Jersey, was born in Ceylon, India, May 14, 1854, son of Charles Smith Shelton, A. B., A. M., M. D., and Henrietta
Mills Hyde, his wife. Both families have been American for many generations but were originally English. On the maternal side his ancestry is traced
back to Anne Hyde, queen of England. He attended the public and High schools of Springfield, Illinois, from 1862 to 1869, then entered a dry goods
jobbing house in New York city and continued there until 1871. He next studied at Hasbrouck Institute of Jersey City, and attended there until 1873.
From 1873 to 1877 he was a student at Yale College, whence he graduated in June, 1877, with the A. B. degree. His medical education was acquired at the
New York Homťopathic Medical College and Hospital, where he graduated, M. D., in March, 1880. He began the practice of medicine in Jersey City, but in
October, 1883, he removed to Montclair and has practiced there since, and is now the senior practitioner of either school in the town. His hospital
appointments have been member of the general staff of St. Mary's Hospital, Passaic, New Jersey, and lecturer on obstetrics in its school for nurses ;
member of the medical staff of the Homťopathic Hospital of Essex county, New Jersey, a member of its board of trustees, and a lecturer on materia
medica in its school for nurses. Dr. Shelton was one of the founders of the Essex County Homťopathic Medical Society and for three years was its
secretary, one year its treasurer, and for the year 1902-1903 was president of the society. Dr. Shelton married, June 15, 1882, Henriette Adele Huggins
of Jersey City. Four children were born of this marriage -Henry Wood, Nettie May, Willis and Charles Keith Shelton.

Source : History of Homťopathy by William Harvey King
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